Charlotte Perriand, Rectangular coffee table
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)
Rectangular coffee table
Circa 1960
Rectangular coffee table with a solid mahogany top, with bevelled edges, standing ont a bent metal steel sheet base with its original black lacquer.
The four legs are on four metal end-legs.
The model has been designed in 1953 and then edited by Steph Simon, from 1956.
Height 38 cm (14 7⁄8 in) - Length 112 cm (44 in) - Depth 42,5 cm (16 3⁄4 in)
Provenance:
- Private collection of a Parisian architect who was a client of the Gale- rie Steph Simon in the sixties.
Literature:
- Photograph of an exhibition of Noguchi lamps with Perriand furniture in the Steph Simon gallery, with a coffee table similar to ours in the background
- Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Un art d’habiter, éd. Norma, Paris, 2011, pp. 384, 394, 413, 429 et 434.
- Galeries Jousse, Seguin, Navarra, Jean Prouvé, co-édition Jousse-Seguin-Navarra, Paris, 1998, pp. 94.
